Instructions for flashing: 1. Power up NGEasy and let it boot up 2. Flash the new software to NGEasy by running the command: ngeasy-service-tool.exe -f C:\Temp\ngeasy.hex (use location where you downloaded .hex file) The flashing process is fully automatic and progresses as follows: 1. Yellow LEDs are lighted up to indicate the starting of the flashing procedure 2. Yellow LEDs start blinking to indicate that flash erasing is in progress. This will take a little over one minute. 3. Blue LEDs start blinking indicating the flashing progress. This will take around 8 minutes. a. You will also see the progress % reported and printed to console by the ngeasy-service-tool 4. Green LEDs are shown, when the flashing is complete. ngeasy-service-tool exits and you need to power-cycle NGEasy to boot up the new software. Note1 If there is some problem during flashing, the ngeasy-service-tool should exit and print some error diagnostics information. Also the LEDs on NGEasy should turn red in that case. If this happens, start the procedure from the beginning again. (There is some flakyness in the flashing process, but retrying a few times usually fixes the issue) Note2 After a flashing failure, typically the old software can't be booted up on NGEasy anymore, so bootloader automatically boots into software downloading state. This is indicated with the yellow LEDs. Instructions for backup & restore Backup & restore is supported from NGEasy swing boom release 1.59.1 onwards. The new NGEasy software needs to be flashed first. After that it is possible to take backup of existing user data from external flash (user settings, calibration values, etc.). Backup 1. Power up NGEasy and let it boot up 2. Take backup of the user data from NGEasy by running the command: ngeasy-service-tool.exe -r C:\Temp\ngeasy-data-backup.bin The backup takes about 10 seconds. A progress bar will be shown on NGEasy UI during the backup process and a check mark icon appears after backup is done. NGEasy needs to be rebooted after backup to get back into normal operating mode. Restore 1. Power up NGEasy and let it boot up 2. Restore backed up data to NGEasy by running the command: ngeasy-service-tool.exe -w C:\Temp\ngeasy-data-backup.bin The restore takes about 10 seconds. A progress bar will be shown on NGEasy UI during the restore process and a check mark icon appears after restore is done. NGEasy needs to be rebooted after restore to get back into normal operating mode. Note There is not yet migration support in ngeasy-service-tool, so if you restore old backed up data to new NGEasy application software version, it is possible that some data is not compatible with new NGEasy application software version and default settings may be taken into use instead. Migration support will be implemented in the future.